Game Recreates Entire Galaxy, 1,000 Players Determined To Explore It

Some folks play huge space game Elite: Dangerous to lead
humble, (fairly) usual space lives. They do tasks, make transfers, and
beautify their cockpits with pointless little bubbleheads. Now there's The
Great Expedition. The First Great Expedition started with a solitary goal: to
mutually discover all of Elite: Dangerous' 400 billion star systems, or no less
than, as many of them as realistically probable. The newly launched space sim holds
a huge galaxy exhibited after our own Milky Way, its sparkling nebulae joined
together by human hands and technical algorithms deep-rooted in actual science.
Travel as much of it as they could, some participants of this expedition would leave
the rest of the game and just dive into the black unknown. This isn't anything
like in other games, moreover; roaming back to elegant space isn't as simple as
a fast press of a button, nor is plotting paths or guessing out what you're going
to bump into.

I am talking about thousands upon thousands upon thousands
of light years of cosmos. This isn't just a project you can easily complete on
a lazy Sunday afternoon. A year ago, a gamer called Steve "Gibbonici"
Wilds create a post searching for fellow explorers. At that time, Elite:
Dangerous wasn't formally released. Actually, it wasn't even near to offer a
complete, openly passable galaxy. Wilds projected reaction from maybe 15 or 20
people. Instead, he received over 1,000. His group would go on to interest
amateur astronomers, astrophysics professionals, and one ex-NASA scientist.